Perhaps most important for Ella, however, was her mother
's influence and guidance, and the reading of every magazine she could lay her hands on, together with works by Ouida
, Mary J. Holmes
...
Education
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Writing by SJD
suggests that some of her early reading included Sterne
and Defoe
. She also had access to Blackwood's and the Cornhill Magazine, and romantic novels by Mary Cecil Hay
and Mary Jane Holmes
.
Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi.